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Close - that was the excuse, but he was more likely killed for his work on encryption in combination with his successful defense to the ramming through of SOPA+PIPA.
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I'm not sure it's a hoax, but there are definitely leagues of opportunists that want to use it to steal money. "There's climate issues, and the only way to fix them is to give me billions of dollars". "Oh, will it fix the issue?" "No but you are racist unless you do". WUT
They already do, bud. Constantly. Media just ignores it for obvious reasons. You really think /pol/ can't access whatever research paper it wants, whenever the hell it wants?
PSA: if you email one of the authors asking for their reasearch paper, about 90% of the time they send it back as an attachment for free. Haven't paid for a research paper for years.
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[–] klobos 0 points 19 points 19 points (+19|-0) ago
There is money involved, so no. Even getting papers from taxpayer funded research will never happen.
[–] olltre 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
kinda fucked up...im so sick of taxpayers getting fucked every where
[–] no-hurry-no-pause 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
You should be even more sick of taxes being collected at all.
[–] primaryappellation 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Which, one way or another, is most research
[–] avgwhtguy1 0 points 15 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago
Well they killed Aaron Swartz for this, so prob not.
[–] alele-opathic 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Close - that was the excuse, but he was more likely killed for his work on encryption in combination with his successful defense to the ramming through of SOPA+PIPA.
[–] avgwhtguy1 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
He was certainly poking the bear in more ways than one
[–] BlueDrache 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Probably not, because that'd allow /pol/ to sperg out and disprove the whole climate change hoax.
[–] wtf123132 ago
I'm not sure it's a hoax, but there are definitely leagues of opportunists that want to use it to steal money. "There's climate issues, and the only way to fix them is to give me billions of dollars". "Oh, will it fix the issue?" "No but you are racist unless you do". WUT
[–] TheTrigger ago
They already do, bud. Constantly. Media just ignores it for obvious reasons. You really think /pol/ can't access whatever research paper it wants, whenever the hell it wants?
[–] Sanpa33 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Wish we could pirate papers and books like we do music and movies. Knowledge is power.
[–] hedidnothingwrong 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
You can pirate papers : sci-hub.tw
[–] no-hurry-no-pause 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
And you can pirate books: gen.lib.rus.ec
[–] juicedidwtc 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
PSA: if you email one of the authors asking for their reasearch paper, about 90% of the time they send it back as an attachment for free. Haven't paid for a research paper for years.
[–] ThoughtTheDragon 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
For what it's worth, we have a strong guerilla movement for open access, and here is one of the creations of it's hacktivists:
https://sci-hub.tw
Also check out
libgen.io
Also part of the movement, for many pirated ebooks, including mandatory college textbooks.
Hacktivism is perhaps one area where left and right idealogues can work together towards common good.
[–] headfire 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Elsevier. The absolute worst.
[–] MrPim 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Burn Reed Elsevier to the ground